User Experience Designer

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Base pay range: $90,000.00/yr - $/yr

Job Title: UX Designer II, All recipes

Job Description

I. Job Summary Major goals and objectives:
People Inc. is the largest digital and print publisher in America. From mobile to magazines, nearly 200 million people trust us to help them make decisions, take action, and find inspiration. People Inc. has more than 40 iconic brands, including PEOPLE, Better Homes & Gardens, Verywell, Food & Wine, The Spruce, All recipes, Byrdie, REAL SIMPLE, Investopedia, and Southern Living. We are building engaging experiences that excite users and amplify the voices of our brands.

We are looking for a User Experience Designer II to help define experiences for our engaging food sites and utilities, All recipes and MyRecipes. In this role you will craft engaging, functional, and elegant experience design solutions based on a deep and empathetic understanding of our user’s needs. You will partner closely with our Product and Engineering teams to quickly iterate on product definition and ship new features, quickly.

Listening to users and gathering feedback from them will also be super important in this role. Experience with user research is highly desirable.

In this role you must be collaborative in your approach to internal stakeholders, while simultaneously and vigorously championing the consumer experience.

As a UX Designer II at People Inc. you will be responsible for collaborating on user research, translating business requirements into concrete ideas, and refining and iterating on those ideas for delivering to engineering teams. You will help design the overall functionality of our products and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience.

• 60% - User Experience Design:
  Use business requirements, user stories, and data to produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity mockups, and rigorous user interface specifications
• 30% - Collaborate with Design and Product teams:
  Partner with UX researchers to validate assumptions, test designs, and understand user data;
  Present design solutions and build consensus among a broad range of stakeholders;
  Participate in and lead brainstorming and critique sessions that foster big-picture thinking while identifying opportunities to raise the bar on the details
• 10% - Process Management:
  Collaborate with broader UX Team to develop and implement best practices

Education: Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent education and experience

Experience: 4-7 years as a UX Designer for mass-market Web and Mobile products

Specific

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong user experience skills including user research, usability testing, and interaction design
• Experience designing, planning, and building interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users
• Familiarity with atomic design methodology and an interest in the challenges that come with building and maintaining design systems
• Expertise in UX software such as Figma. Basic HTML and CSS skills are a big plus
• A solid grasp of user-centered design and testing methodologies, subsystems, and usability and accessibility concerns
• Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and stakeholders distributed across the country

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to:

• Thoroughly understand the wants and needs of our users.
• Translate user needs and business requirements into concrete ideas, wireframes, and mockups.
• Build interactive prototypes suitable for validating design decisions with users.
• Apply creative problem solving to the design, processes, and tooling of the system itself.
• Document design guidelines, share knowledge, and collaborate with the engineering team to ensure products ship on time and as designed.
• Help lead our efforts to build accessible digital products (A11y and WCAG), building awareness, and accountability across the rest of our product organization.

• Associate

• Full-time

• Design and Information Technology

• Technology, Information and Media

• Medical insurance
• Pension plan
• Paid paternity leave
• Tuition assistance
• Disability insurance
• Child care support
• Vision insurance
• Paid maternity leave
• Student loan assistance
• 401(k)